How to get data off of a character
See the question and my original answer on StackOverflowMaybe you should use another API/URL. This function below uses a different url that returns JSON data and seems to work better:
public static string Translate(string input, string fromLanguage, string toLanguage)
{
using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient())
{
string url = string.Format("http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=j&text={0}&sl={1}&tl={2}", Uri.EscapeUriString(input), fromLanguage, toLanguage);
string result = webClient.DownloadString(url);
// I used JavaScriptSerializer but another JSON parser would work
JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
Dictionary<string, object> dic = (Dictionary<string, object>)serializer.DeserializeObject(result);
Dictionary<string, object> sentences = (Dictionary<string, object>)((object[])dic["sentences"])[0];
return (string)sentences["trans"];
}
}
If I run this in a Console App:
Console.WriteLine(Translate("How are you?", "en", "es"));
It will display
¿Cómo estás?